| Covered Hoppers: Airslide, Two Bay, Three Bay, Four Bay | Box Cars: 86', 84', 60', 50' Single Door, 50' Double Door, 50' Insulated, 40' | Cabooses, Locomotives |
| Open Hoppers: Two Bay, Three Bay, Four Bay, Six Bay | Gondolas, Woodchip Gondolas, Coil Steel Cars | Flat Cars, Auto Rack Cars |
| Southern Railway Index | Contemporary Freight Cars Index | Photo Index |
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| 'Silverside' gondola Southern 1027 was not looking very shiny by the time it was photographed sometime in the early 1990s. |
| Southern 66721 at Radford, VA on 2 February 2002. |
SOU 66774
| Southern 66774 with a prefabricated turnout a westbound freight at Shawsville, VA on 19 January 2002. |
SOU 328010
| Southern 328010 with a load of used ties in an eastbound freight at Bluefield, WV 26 August 2001. |
| Southern 290042 in Bluefield, VA on 10 October 2004. This car was built in 1957 by Greenville Steel Car. |
SOU 318203
| Southern 318203 rolling through Goodview, VA on 24 July 2004. |
SOU 318244
| Southern 318244 near Shawsville, VA on 14 February 2004. |
| This unusual car, partially hidden behind an 89' triple-hitch TTX flat, is track panel car. It is one of 27 such cars (Series 991101-991127) converted from gondolas in 1970 by the Southern's Coster shops. A picture of 991117 appears in James Kinkaid's Southern Railway Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment (Morning Sun). |
SOU 991637 MW
| This gondola was bringing up the tail of a westbound ribbon rail train near Freindship Road crossing, November 20, 2000. It appears to to have originally been a Southern class GA gondola built in 1943 with wood sides, but it received steel sides and fixed ends some time later. |
| A simple reminder of 9/11/01 on a Maintenace of Way gondola at Ripplemead, VA on 7 April 2002. |
SOU 994826 MW
| Southern 994826 was at Gate City, VA on 2 September 2001. |
| Covered Hoppers: Airslide, Two Bay, Three Bay, Four Bay | Box Cars: 86', 84', 60', 50' Single Door, 50' Double Door, 50' Insulated, 40' | Cabooses, Locomotives |
| Open Hoppers: Two Bay, Three Bay, Four Bay, Six Bay | Gondolas, Woodchip Gondolas, Coil Steel Cars | Flat Cars, Auto Rack Cars |
| Southern Railway Index | Contemporary Freight Cars Index | Photo Index |
Joe Shaw --
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Last update:
Tuesday, 04-Oct-2005 21:07:38 EDT